{"id":5491,"date":"2013-01-23T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/conjunction-and-occultation\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T04:11:38","slug":"conjunction-and-occultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/conjunction-and-occultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunction and Occultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/conjunction.jpg' title='conjunction.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/conjunction.jpg' alt='conjunction.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of us observed the conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter Monday night. Here in Wickenburg, AZ, we had perfect conditions for observing this beautiful asterism. The amazing astrophoto above, was submitted to the <strong>SpaceWeather.com<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/gallery\/index.php\">Realtime Image Gallery<\/a> by an amateur astrophotographer in North America. You see the Moon with Jupiter and three of its four Galilean moons (not sure which three). Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Another amateur astrophotographer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America took a picture of the actual <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/occult.jpg' title='occult.jpg'>occultation of the Moon and Jupiter<\/a>. Click the link to view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us observed the conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter Monday night. Here in Wickenburg, AZ, we had perfect conditions for observing this beautiful asterism.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}